Need to communicate components of plan (simple survey -- 3 or 4 questions, with "How's it going" questions). Survey could be equally targeting awareness of plan comments, and degree to which teachers are following it. This survey could be implemented once each year.
With each round of evaluation, the district would create an addendum to the plan.
Sample timeline:
•Each October, the Tech Committee devises a survey and distributes staff and student surveys through principals' staffnotes, linking to a SurveyMonkey-style instrument.
•These data would be analyzed by the Committee. Committee would bring results to ASTE in February, revise the plan in March, and communicate plan to district while submitting an addendum to DEED.
•The first year's survey would emphasize awareness of the plan and soliciting staff development preferences of staff.
•The survey would need to gauge staff and student infrastructure, as it supports the Tech Plan goals.
•At the final meeting of the Tech Committee for each year, the Committee will decide the focus of revisions for the following year.
In order to make plan a living document, it should be available in electronic format (Wiki or Weblog or other content management system) for comment and revision.
District technology committee, as people with initial investment, should be the primary group to process feedback.
Document needs Goals and Activities format to allow for evaluation and
Role of site-based tech committees: Committees could disseminate and collect information about plan goals and activities.
Need to re-activate and / or clarify roles of site tech. committee. This should involve a Central Office liaison per site tech. committee.
District Tech Coordinator would attend local site committee meetings to provide cohesion among sites, and to collect evaluation data.
Possible activity: Pairing with another district (like Bering Straits) to comment upon one another's web site.
General Remarks
(Participants: Ray, Tom, Barbara, John)•Each October, the Tech Committee devises a survey and distributes staff and student surveys through principals' staffnotes, linking to a SurveyMonkey-style instrument.
•These data would be analyzed by the Committee. Committee would bring results to ASTE in February, revise the plan in March, and communicate plan to district while submitting an addendum to DEED.
•The first year's survey would emphasize awareness of the plan and soliciting staff development preferences of staff.
•The survey would need to gauge staff and student infrastructure, as it supports the Tech Plan goals.
•At the final meeting of the Tech Committee for each year, the Committee will decide the focus of revisions for the following year.